Variety is the Spice of Life

I have had a good start to the year playing a variety of games, namely:

Check Your 6!

Piquet Band of Brothers

Force on Force (twice)

Sword and Spear

Arc of Fire

Necromunda (twice)

Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World’s End

Lion Rampant

Legions of Battle

Muskets and Tomahawks

Wings of Glory

Lord of the Rings

The Gattling’s Jammed

Washington Club WW2 naval

Sixteen games is a bit behind the pace if I am going to hit the target of 100 in the year but the most important thing is that I am getting an awful lot of fun from my games.

The highlight of the year so far had to be on Saturday at the Albanich show in Dumfries.  The Falkirk club put on an Indian Mutiny game and I was one of the leaders of the ‘Freedom Fighters’, defending a couple of villages against the Imperialists.  Throwing caution to the winds I threw the tribal levies forward on the left flank and, despite taking horrific casualties, managed to break a brigade of Ghurkhas.  Great fun and we were pleasantly surprised to win ‘Best in Show’ for the game

Impressions of Albanich

On Saturday I went down to the Dumfries show with several other members of the Falkirk Club.  We put on an ‘Algernon Pulls a Fast One’  WW1 air participation game.  It attracted a couple of punters and the young son of one of our members enjoyed playing a couple of games as well.  The attraction of this sort of PP game is that it is great fun for the organisers to play even if no one else wants to take part.

The show itself had 22 traders and 7 games.  It is a small show in terms of number of visitors but seems to have established itself as a regular on the Scottish wargames calander.  Well worth the 2 hour each way drive – I certainly had a very relaxing day of it.   Think they may have overstretched themselves with the number of traders though – with a relatively low turn out a number cannot have had a very profitable day.

The next show in Scotland is Carronade on Saturday 10^th of May.  Preparation is well advanced with over 40 traders booked and a similar number of games expected.